Associate Support Engineer

The Associate Support Engineer is an entry level Customer Support role. SendGrid is growing and looking to hire a kickass problem-solver who is passionate about customer support and solving customer’s challenges. Excellent customer service is one of the core values of our company and what our customers have come to expect and love about our service. If you are technically savvy, customer focused, and have outstanding communication skills, keep reading.

What You'll Do

Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble

Provide product support for common customer inquiries received via the telephone, email and chat.

Assess the nature of product or service issues and resolve basic support problems.

Log customer interactions and tag/categorize issues accordingly.

Escalate complex issues to more senior Support staff.

Perform general tasks and complete routine assignments.

Identify ways for improving existing process and procedure.

About You

1 year+ providing professional customer and/or technical support

High Energy, optimistic outlook and positive attitude

Empathetic approach to troubleshooting and customer service

Quick learner, willing to take initiative, and has great follow through

Strong listening skills and analytic abilities

Introspective with passion for self improvement

Passion for applied learning in a fast paced environment

Strong problem solving skill set, creatively

Communicates based on what is heard, not just what is said

Motivated by challenges

Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in

Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others

Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active

Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals

About SendGrid

Founded in 2009, SendGrid built its reputation solving a key pain point of delivering transactional emails that respond to customer behavior (purchase receipts, order confirmations, password resets, etc.). In 2015, SendGrid expanded the platform into marketing email use cases, enabling customers to have one platform for both transactional and marketing email. We deliver over 45 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Yelp.